Communist Organ takes Dow to task

The "Central Organ of the Communist Party in Vietnam" published some stories by Kenneth J. Herrmann, Jr., a Vietnam War veteran who wrote “Lepers and Lunacy: An American in Vietnam Today” in 2003.

Hermann takes The Dow Chemical Co. to task for Agent Organge and the legacy it left. Agent Orange was the dioxin-containing defoliant the U.S. sprayed everywhere, the same dioxin that once prompted the State of Texas to tell everyone down here not to eat fish taken from the Brazos River.

Reparations are in order, says Hermann, or, in the alternative, howsabout if Dow invested in the country?

Vietnam struggles in a frustrating attempt to help its citizens...it announced in June 2001 that it would begin to pay some of these victims of American chemical warfare between two cents and twenty-three cents per day.

Vietnamese victims will receive less than what it costs the US government for postage to send compensation checks to American victims...Think of that the next time you see Dow Chemical ads on TV that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each. Think of the two cents they will not help pay to the victims of their dioxin. Think of Dow Chemical’s corporate motto “Living. Improved Daily;” then, think of the dying and disabled children who cough up blood in the rural mountains of Vietnam.

No response yet from the Central Organ of The Dow Chemical Co. that I know of.

War is hell.
[nhandan.com]